US Patent Issued to Medical Research and Development on Sept. 15 for "Stratification method and stratification device" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,854, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Medical Research and Development Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Stratification method and stratification device" was invented by Masanori Fukushima (Aichi, Japan), Bin Zhou (Aichi, Japan), Zhen Hong (Shanghai) and Qianhua Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stratification method includes: obtaining, for each of a plurality of subjects with mild cognitive impairment, a score of a result of a clinical psychological test performed on the subject and a hippocampus volume of the subject; classifying each of the plurality of subjects into one of a plurality of groups based on the score of the s...